Fascinating quote in a New York Times piece on the Brexit-backing British newspapers (and principally, The Sun): With little regard for the truth — he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote — Mr. Johnson wrote…
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How the alt-right media machine stole the "Fake News" tag
This really is a mark of just how efficient and savvy the media machine around Trump is: But though the term [Fake News] hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you could say “Pizzagate,” the…
The end of presidential access journalism in the US
David Remnick writing for the New Yorker about Trump’s meeting the the US press: “But he truly doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment,” the source continued. “He doesn’t. He thinks we are supposed to say what…
Trump: from sideshow to president
Huffington Post, July 2015: After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead, we…
The human behind the politician mask
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomson’s interview with Alan Johnson for The Times: When people ask him how many children he has, he always says four — sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. “It’s…
Why this general election is a great test of news sites' digital evolution
The advent of fixed term parliaments in the UK will make this a particularly interesting general election from a digital journalism point of view. This will be the first election where the newspapers (and others sites – but the newspapers are…